Glyph-Breaker
by Fischer, Steven Roger
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0387982418
- ISBN 13
- 9780387982410
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Copernicus [0-387-98241-8] 1997, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 234pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Color photographs, tables, diagrams, bibliography, index. "When he successfully deciphered the rongorongo script of Easter Island - the mysterious system of glyphs in which the island's Polynesian inhabitants had recorded their ritual chants and songs - Steven Roger Fischer gained a unique place in the pantheon of glyphbreakers. He is the only person who has ever deciphered not one but two historical scripts". Book about Extinct Languages & Glyphs. Locale: Easter Island. (Language, Ancient History, Codebreaking, Language, Linguistics).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 155014
- Title
- Glyph-Breaker
- Author
- Fischer, Steven Roger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0387982418
- ISBN 13
- 9780387982410
- Publisher
- Copernicus
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Language, Ancient History, Codebreaking, Language, Linguistics
- Bookseller catalogs
- Reference;
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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